Chapter 13: XIII

XIII In Poor Quarters In the meantime, the Hardy boys were finding the suspense almost unbearable. They had expected that their father would be away but a day at the most, but when two days dragged by, then three, and finally an entire week, without word from Mr. Hardy further than a brief note from New York stating that he was well and that the case was not as easy of solution as he had hoped, they became depressed. “If Dad can’t get the thief, no one can,” declared Joe, with convicti…